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The first competition of the Box Office Battle™ is - Predictor of the Month.

How is it played?

Users participating will be asked to predict the first, second and the third day Box Office Collections of a film. The differential between the actual and your prediction will be given out as points. Lesser the differential/points, more chances of you winning. So basically, the person with fewer points will win.

**note** If there are multiple releases in the same weekend, then we'll ask you to predict the collections from any of the days of the weekend that we choose. Maybe Movie A's collection on Day 1, Movie B's collection on Day 3 and Movie C's collection on Day 2.

For Example :

1) User A predicts, 11, 12 and 13 Cr for a film and User B predicts, 10.5,12 and 14 Cr for a film.

2) Suppose the actual collections gave out by BOI is 10.55, 11.75 and 13.8 Cr. The difference between the actual and the predicted figures will be given as points for the Users. (Actual - Prediction = Differential/Points)

As you can see, the differential/points of User B is lower than of User A, so User B is the winner here.

The competition will be played season wise. 1 season = 2 Months(8 weekends). And the player topping the leaderboard will be featured in the Homepage as The BO Forecaster of the Season. I will maintain 2 leaderboards, one Season Wise and the other for All Time Points.

* Points will always be in Positive.

Rules & Regulations:

1) Never post your predictions in the thread. I'll post a link from where you will be able to post the predictions directly to me.

2) Send exact figures only, Your predictions must not include a range of possibilities.

2) The predictions cannot be changed. Once you send a prediction to me, that one will be considered final, no changes will be allowed. So make sure to think it through before sending Prediction.

3) I will not accept any predictions after the deadline. If any user fails to send the prediction in any of the weekends, a penalty will be added to his point total.

(Penalty= Points of the user last in the same weekend + 1) If User A scored 4 Points,(the most differential that weekend) then the penalty for the user not predicting that weekend will be 5.

4) The person with the least points(differential) in a given weekend will have the option to challenge any user of his liking for the coming weekend's prediction.

(Suppose User A topped the leader-board with least differential in a weekend and he opted to Challenge User X for the next weekend. The coming weekend, the prediction competition will be held as usual, but the differential of the two players(User A and User X) will be taken aside and the one with least differential among the two will be announced as the winner. The loser, will receive a penalty.) Suppose User A won the challenge, then the penalty for User X will be - (User A's differential that week + 1). vice versa.

The topper can also choose not to exercise this power, but he'll have to choose someone else to use that power instead. And the second user who receives this power must challenge someone else other than the topper for the same.

Prizes (Total Available Prize Amount - 55,000)

Rank

Prize in Points

1

15,000

2

10,000

3

7,500

4

5,000

5

4,000

6

3,000

7

2,000

8

1,500

9

1,250

10

1,100

11

1,000

12

800

13

700

14

600

15

500

16

400

17

300

18

200

19

100

20

50

Glossary :

a) Differential: It's a game of Differential. The differential is the difference between the predicted figure and the actual figure announced by the BOI. Basically, fewer the differential, more chances of you winning.

I WILL MAKE A POST WITH THE DETAILS OF THE FIRST PREDICTION COMPETITION on 08-7-2015, 8PM IST. STAY TUNED!